The name Dred Scott is synonymous with the struggle for freedom. Now, 165 years after the Supreme Court case that bears his name, Scott’s gravesite is a memorial befitting that legacy. NewsHour ...

Enter Roswell Field, a lawyer in St. Louis whose son, Eugene Field, would find fame as a poet. In 1854, Roswell Field took ...

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The controversial Dred Scott case of 1857 is considered a hallmark in the question of slavery in the United States. Few realize that Scott once lived at Fort Snelling in St. Paul in present-day ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Maquette of Harriet and Dred Scott SCOTT STATUE • With fewer than five weeks to go before a statue of Dred and Harriet Scott is ...

Dred Scott, an enslaved man who lost his bid for freedom, will be honored with a new memorial monument at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis on Saturday. In 1846, Scott and his wife, Harriet, filed their ...

Dred Scott and Harriet Scott wood engravings after photographs by John H. Fitzgibbon, St. Louis, Mo. (Wikimedia) “Our word isn’t racism. It’s relationship.” Those are the words of Lynne Jackson, the ...

Your donation fuels local reporting and heats a home through the Warmth Support Program. Dred Scott died of tuberculosis in 1858, the year after the court decision that bears his name. Wikimedia ...

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“They can do same thing that Abraham Lincoln did about the Dred Scott decision of 1857,” Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, said, speaking of what conservatives might do about Obergefell ...

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